Phrases About and From Max Jacob

Rosanna Warren
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters

About:

p. 301

redefining fiction as an art not so much of plot as of voice

p. 309

what it meant to write a modern poem: not an explosive device, but a cadenced enchantment carrying the older art into new space

p. 389

Everything is morally metamorphic.

From:

p. 527

through attention, you’ll enlarge the precious sensibility that is your fortune and your patient future. … Consider yourself a speck of the cosmos.

p. 530

Poetry is an invented dream

And so for day 2896
16.11.2014

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